GeForce 210 vs Radeon HD 6450

GeForce 210
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce 210
Radeon HD 6450
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Apr 2011
Radeon HD 6450

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 210

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6450

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6450

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 210Radeon HD 6450
GPU NameGT218 (GT218-300-B1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size57 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors260 millionvs370 million
Shaders16vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock520 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 210Radeon HD 6450
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 210Radeon HD 6450
TDP31 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date12 Oct 2009vs7 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 210
    2.08 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 210
    4.16 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 210
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6450
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 210
    39.36 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6450
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better